Nov. i, 1894.] THE TROPICAL 
To the Editor. 
CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA. 
N:w York, Sept. 10th, 189-1. 
Dear Sir, — Again, I take up my pea to worry 
yoa with another long letter. However, I think the 
same will interest you. First I will call yonr at- 
tention to the enclosed letter, receive 3 by me from 
the Board of Lady Managers, World's Columbian 
Commission by which you will notice that the 
usefulness of the Exhibition or the work of the 
Board of Lady Managers is not dead yet and in 
my opinion the results will show more prominently 
in the future. Since the close of the Exhibition 
business has undergone a most terrible ordeal owing 
to the unsettled condition of the Tariff Question ; 
happily this has been settled, not to the entire 
satisfaction of the people, but in time will adjust 
itself. This question being settled for the time, 
business will again resume, and we look for 
better things in the near 'uture and the g od 
results of the World's Columbian Exhibition nre 
sure to follow. It the inclosed article that I have 
Writ tea on tha request of the Board of Lady 
Maujge' s m els with your approval and you should 
care to publish the same in your valuable jourLal it 
would be qu to agreeable to me, and would afford 
yoiir readers an opportunity of knowing that the 
good work in Ceylon's interest is still going ou in 
America. [The paper in question docs credit to 
Mr. Bie acb, but it confabs nothing new to Cey on 
lvaders to warrant local republication. — Ed. 1\A.] 
I am more ihan sorry thrt valuable time is 
going by that might have been utilised most profit- 
ub y to the teaiu'erests ofCeylontea in Am rica. As 
yoa are aware, on Ju e 29 h, I made a proposi- 
tion as to tbh New York office. I am sure if such 
an appointment wouid come to me that 1 would 
do th ■ r Itice the justice required and with a dig- 
nity and results that v. ould be most satisfactory 
to the Joint Committee, the Planters' Association 
and all interested. I hi.ve also made auother 
proposition to the woithy Chairman of the Planters' 
Association A. Melville White, Esq , with tins mail, 
in relation to the coming Expos-tion at Atlanta, 
Georgia, known as the Cotton States and Inter- 
national Exhibition. This will be a most excellent 
opportunity and in a tection of the United States 
that will be most desirable, athacsing visitors from 
all the Southern States as w 11 as from the East 
and West and within reach of a large portion of 
our population. I herewith hand you a copy of 
my proposition and if agreeable to Mr. White wouid 
be glad to see snnie in ths Observer for the 
general information of all that may feel interested 
in the enterprise.* 
To do the American C amj.aign justico we mu3t 
strike while the iron is hot ; the work cauuet bo 
done by fits and starts; a hits tow and a bi.r 
then will not fill tho bill; it requir s persi tent 
push without abatement The success of India at 
the World's fair in no way compared with that of 
Ceylon yet Ind a list no time iu following up the 
cxtiibi ion by returning the tea representative at 
Chicago with a nalivo staff to follow up the work. 
Ero this reaches you, should Ceylon', have decided 
as to ti e future, I trust tint my proposition as to 
tho exhibition will be taken up with a spirit that 
the occasion requires, aud short d Ceylon elect to 
take np tLe Atlanta exposition I am more than 
• This letter- to the Chairman, P. A. contains 
practical proposal i with reference to the Exhibition 
leferred to : it will no doubt be la d before the next 
P. A. Commitleo meeting aud duly discussed. We 
were much iu'etest^d on our visit to Atlanta, 
Georgia, in 1881 ; it is one of the most command- 
ing, central and important of towns iu the Southern 
States.— Ei>. T.A. 
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convinced that the enterprizs would never be 
regretted and that the results would be profitable. 
Quick action will be required so that we may have 
first choice of site. I believe in this case I am ahead 
of India; I am in communication with the president 
of the exhibition and as soon as I x'eceive the plans of 
the building &c, I shail take the precaution to 
have the refusal of a choice location si as to be 
fully aud advp.ntagiously prepared should Ceylon 
endorse the enterprize and elect to have a representa- 
tion at the Cotton States and international ex- 
position. 
And if my request mee's with favour I con- 
fidently promise a representation that will 
interest, be lasting f>nd most satisfactory, 
with my exhibition experience of the past I know 
just what I am capable of doin< and what can be 
done, so if I can enlist the required confidence I will 
assure success and display and advertise pure Ceylon 
tea in a way that has never been done before. This 
exhibition has the endorsement of the Government 
as p-r clipping from the New York He/ aid. 
PREPARING FOR THE EXPOSITION. 
Preparations are already bei; g made for the Cotton 
States and International Exposition which will be 
Jield in Atlanta, Ga., during September, October, 
November and December of next year. A bill has just 
passed the United St tes Senate, appropriating 
$200,000 for a Government exhibit. The Government 
Building, which is still standing at the World's Fair 
Grounds i*t Chicago, will, in ail probability, be re- 
in ved to Atlanta. 
Betwe n now and then the opportunities are numer- 
ous for good practical work with pur • food shows in 
New York and Brooklyn and other desirablu points 
insuring the attention of the cons .mer. Inter-iewiDg 
the large importers pnd wholesale houses, the tea 
school, dist ibution of advertising matter &a. and 
booming Ceylon tea generally, 
I was very much interested in your editorial in 
Overland Observer of July 23rd on " Ceylon Tei for 
America"; you are quite ri^ht, Iadia acted with the 
utmost promptitude and despatched its agent to 
Americt without loss of time. Mr. Bleehyntien is 
getting in his work and his native servants are being 
noticed as my attention has been called on several 
occasions to the exhibitions made in good shops. 
You are quite right. Ceylon, I know, though taking 
the lead at Chicago is being left behind. You are 
also quite right as to this side cry which has been 
raised as to green teas and the Americans; thesis 
nothing iu it. Also when you say "we unhesitatingly 
declare in reply that there are no people on the face 
cf the earth more ready to take up wits a new 
product, new food or drink if it can be demonstrated 
to be a good, much rnoie superior article, than tha 
people cf the United States." 
I learned to e.t oatmeal porridge, I learned to 
drink Ceylon tea, my wh?le family did the same. 
At first we thought oatmeal a horrible dish, tha 
tame with thousands and thousands of American 
families, who today love it nnd oitmeal has come 
10 stay. You are quile right it has only to bedemon- 
trated to the mass of people that they are simply 
skedto exchange an inferior, artificially faced and 
of tin adulterated product iu the teas they now get 
from China and Japan, for an absolutely pure, 
cleanly -prepared and superior article, — in order to pet 
them by thousand* and millions to drink the new 
tea, and in doing so more especially to get them to 
like the mi d " Ceylons." You are not asking them 
to make a leap in the dark in making the change. 
What Ceylon has to offer Is the best and purest tea 
in the world, and Americans would be blind, would 
be foolish to reluse this pure aud delicious offering 
of the paradise of the world, your beautiful Ceylon. 
Ceylon tea properly placed before the American 
public is bound to win tho American market, only 
follow up the work, Americans will learn to drink 
the best iu the world " pare Ceylon tea " 
and like it as they learned to eat and 
like oatmeal porridge. Without a question 
iu my mind Ceylon tea is the tea for Americans 
